The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-19
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blichigan's war governor IS playing base bail IN
the Northern league with the Big Rapids team
A 'cYcLER, who has returned 10 his home in
Maplewood, v j., after trip through Europe
and Africa on his tricycle. says ne covered l2,Oou
miles at an expense OF 500.
RENovA PA. contains a COW which can re-
move the bars from fence. enter an inclosed
lot and then replace the bars when she goes
out The COW is said 70 do this every night.
Col CooPEz, who is feet , inches in height,
and is probably the tallest man in the country,
is keeping saloon now in Buffalo, y. Y, hav-
ing tired of tue publicity Of the show business.
SENIOR BARxILLo, Vice President of the Re-
public OF Honduras, is devoting fortnight TO
study of Chicago, its railway system, water
works, grain elevators, boodlers and other
wonderful things.
ANNIE C. ARNOLD of Lynn, Mass, has just
been pardoned from Sherborn prison in the
Bay State. The woman was wrongfully ac-
cused OF theft last May and she entered a plea
of guilty in order to escape the notorlety OF
public trial
CAPE CHARLES Cry, Va, is the only city in
America that is fenced in. 1t is said that the
only public road leading to the place is the rail
road. Why the citizens Of that section do not
build roads by which people can drive to Cape
Charles is mystery, for the town Is growing
rapidly.
GEN FERRoS, envious of Gen Boulangers
pictorial fame, had himself, on his white
charger, photographed on the review ground,
with his staff behind him He and they took up
the relative positions of Napoleon |, and mis-
Generals watching an Austrian battle in paint
ing by Meissonier.
A PECULIARLY sad case of s,Instroke recently
occurred in Buffalo. The victim was Prus-
sian, who had left his family and came to
America to make a fortune. He had saved
money enough in year TO bring them over
here, and they were expected in Buffalo last
Saturday morning. On Friday afternoon he
died of sInstroke, and his wife and five children
arrived to find him dead, leaving them homeless
and penntleSs in a strange land.
FORTY YEARS AGO there died in Padua the
physician and chemist, G. B. Massedaglia, who
had succeeded in petrifying several animal
bodies, which he bequeathed to the University
Museum. To his will he had attached sealed
letter containing the secret of his method of
petrifaction. which was only to be divUlged to
his legal heirs Until recently all search for the
heirs Of DR.. MaSsedaglia remained fruitless, but
they have at last been discovered, and are
offered very large sums for the secret, which,
however, they refuse to disclose for the present.
Mr.. LABorcHEREs hints to travellers on the
continent in the matter of tips are briefly ex-
pressed. as follows: Frenchmen generally act on
| the estimate that waiter in q Partisan restaur
ant ought not to have more than each
franc of bill At hotels the chambermaids ex-
pect about franc and the waiter ditto when
boots expect something 4 fair estimate is
about two francs day divided among all the
| bloodsuckers. Members of the Stock Exchange
| generally give triple this, members OF the aris
| tocracy half.
WATER BICYCLE was propelled across the
Niagara river, below the Falls, on Sunday, with
reported success by its owner. The machine is
of the catamaran order and consists of two
zinc floats ten feet long. supporting bicycle
wheel, on the rim of which are number of six
4 -, H. 4 E,1-.
the place of the second wheel on the ordinary
bicycle and is operated from in front of the
rider, who uses a small horizontal steering
wheel instead of a bar The time was four and
q half minutes and the distance about 300 feet
! The swift current and the chop waves did not
seem to bother him.
THE SdrGtogidn tells that the other evening
exMayor Ely. of New York, was chatting with
his friends, General and Mrs. A. on the
United States Hotel piazza. The conversation
becoming langud, the General suggested to the
ex-Mayor that they should look into the bar
room TO see who was there. ION, Charley" ex-
claimed Mrs. A to her husband, this is the
fourth time since dinner that you have gone to
CALCULATED the General; then turning to his
friend he said: Ely. my dear fellow, if ever
you do marry, be sure TO select woman who
has never studied arithmetic. "
BISHOP HEBER wrote the well-known hymn
From Greenland's icy mountains at Wrex-
u
ciety for the Propagation Of the Gospel A
writer in last weeks Christian World says that
the late Dr. Rafles of Liverpool was on one
occasion preaching at Wrexham when he heard
the story of Heber's hymn 1t immediately oc-
Cured to him that probably on the printers file
the original manuscript might be found.
Though many years had passed. and the search
looked fruitless. yet it was made On the file,
covered up and long forgotten, it was at length
found, and was soon secured to enrich the valu-
able collection of interesting relics which DR..
Rallies possessed.
THERE is a sort of club at place south, in the
vicinity of London who have made it a practice
to discharge pistols at card marked only with
the ace of any color, to keep the hand in prac
! tlce for dispatchtng. one time or another their
man One day in the course of last week one
of these bloods, seeing one OF his comrades
often fire very wide Of his mark offered to stand
| a shot for a wager Of 10 guineas, if his friend
| doubled his distance, which might have been
| sixteen PAGES. The wager was closed and the
| iron-headed gentleman who made the bet took
his station. while his friend IraverSed the ground
| and discharged his pistol The joke was con
! Guided with the Judgment Of ball in the wa
| gerer's right thigh.
TIE 81 $50 sword which the people of Arizona
will soon present to Gen. Miles will not be orna-
| mented with gems, save a splendid amethyst at
the end of the handle. The scabbard will be of
solid gold. One side will be left for the pr SEN
tation inscriptions, etc. The other side will be
engraved with the following scenes: First, the
agency of san Carlos on the reservation. the
Indians appearing in natural camp life; second
scene, companies of cavalry and infantry in
pursuit of Indians; third, the fight; fourth, the
capture, and the Indians marched 10 Bowie
Station. where train of cars stands in waiting
for their reception; and last, GeronimO's head,
with hat on. forming the foot Of the scabbard
The blade is Of Damascus steel, on which viii
be engraved the name OF Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
with scroll work. The handle or handgrip will
be of white sharks skin braided in gold. The
guard will be Of gold. aud be emblematic of
both cavalry and infantry At the extreme
END of the guard engraved in gold, will be the
head of Natchez, the son of Cochise.
ALPHoSso DAUDET is telling in lie Temps the
story of his creation of ''Nunla Roumestan." It
was believed for long time that the hero was in
tended as a sort of caricature Of Gambetta, and
It was even said that Gambetta resented the
liberty taken by the novelist. and had with
drawn his friendship from him in consequence
of it. u. Daudet now declares that Gaubetta
never for moment imagined that 'Numa Rou-
mestan' was meant to suggest him even re
motey that he greatly amused to think
that ne had been taken for the original of the
portrait. The novelist tells that he sat next
Gambetta at a dinner some little time after the
book appeared, and Gambetta asked him
whether the saving which he r,ttS into ha